DID YOU
KNOW that by
July of
next
year,
all food
and
supplement
labels
will
look
drastically
different?
In
addition,
the
daily
value
(DV) of
many
macro-
and-
micronutrients,
including
their
units of
measure,
will be
changing!
Don't
worry,
we will
be help
you
navigate
this
much
anticipated
morass.

Have a
happy, healthy
day! Steve and
Bonnie

NCI Well Connect
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From
Editor Steve
Minsky

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Bonnie and
Steve: In
last week'sMorbidity
and
Mortality
Weekly
Report,
put out by
the CDC,
researchers
found that
the
percentage
of the adult
population
in the
United
States
meeting
fruit and
vegetable
intake
recommendation
was, and
still is,
catastrophically
low. In
2013, 13.1%
of
respondents
met fruit
intake
recommendations
and 8.9% met
vegetable
recommendations.
In 2015,
12.2% met
fruit intake
recommendations
and 9.3% met
vegetable
intake
recommendations.

Based
upon
this,
how can
public
health
experts
claim
that
most
Americans
get all
of their
vitamins
and
minerals
from
food?
This is
where
the
majority
of them
come
from!

Basic
government
standards
for
fruit
and
vegetable
consumption
is
already
low.
They
suggest
that
adults
should
consume
1.5-2
cup
equivalents
of
fruits
and 2-3
cups of
vegetables
per day.
This is
ridiculous. Yet,
in 2015,
the
frequency
of
reported
intake
among
all
subjects
screened
was one
time per
day for
fruit
and 1.7
times
per day
for
vegetables.

As
public
health
educators,
we take
this
personally.
We
understand
that
there
are
crushing
outside
influences
that
make
increasing
fruit
and
veggie
intake
difficult,
but it
is
titanically
frustrating
nonetheless.
It is
one of
these
messages
that
seems,
no
matter
hard we
try, is
just not
getting
through.

If you
eat
enough
fruit
and
veggies,
wonderful.
If you
or
family
do not,
please
give
yourself
a
holiday
gift by
adding
one more
serving
of each
per day
minimum.
Your
body
will
thank
you for
it in
the long
run!